I was drinking at "Chez Radix",
    my favourite club
Telling anyone who'd listen
    'bout the times I'd 'fragged Shub

When my head started spinning,
    I couldn't think clear
I guess some sneaky mutha-fuckah
    went and drugged my beer

I woke up in the toilet
    with only my axe
Some monster stole my weapons
    and I WANT THEM BACK

Now, I know it weren't a Zombie
     coz the dress code says
No entry to "Chez Radix"
    if you're the undead

But every other monster
    living in this land
Is gonna meet me with my axe
    in my hand

And the thieving scum will
    come a cropper
when he comes face-to-face
    with me and my chopper

Get Quake done Chopped at the QdQ website. (AVI versions)

Getting a demo update all to yourself is the rarest of rare priveleges. You have to do something pretty special to make us say "Fucking hell, this is even better than Ken's demo yesterday!"

But whenever a demo from Connor Fitzgerald arrives you get that tingly "I bet this is something special" feeling in your sack. Like when you see Horvath or Szalontai or Taipale in your inbox.

This is special even by Connor's standard, though. Improving the legendary The Ebon Fortress Easy 100% by Daniel Lindberg by two seconds to 1:19.

Watch this. No further words are needed.

Getting a demo update all to yourself is the rarest of rare priveleges. You have to do something pretty special to make us say "Fucking hell, let's post it right now!" and to be honest, who ever thought we'd see the day when Arturo Garcia Lasca was the one we were raving about.

Well, to be honest it's not that big of a surprise as the guy has always been good, and recently has been claiming id records like they're going out of fashion. Now he has taken a record that has stood for over six years despite the best efforts of some of the best runners in the history of everything, ever.

When Markus made the Easy Run of Castle of the Damned in 0:30 everyone thought it was beatable, but not by a human. They were right. It took Ken to make 0:29.

All demos download for this update is available from here.

Arturo Garcia Lasca is well and truly on a roll. Recently he's been nabbing id records like a fucker. Now he's done a little Marv-o-rape and taken the Termination Central Easy 100% time down by one second to 1:09. Of course he then goes in to the usual "not very good"; "won't last long"; "a good player could beat it easily" shite that he always seems to think is necessary. STFU. It's excellent. :-)

The newest Finn on the block with a rabbit in his reindeer skin underpants is Jaakko Alakopsa, who has been making demos like a certified loony.

• He did the sm82 Easy Run in 4:01 beating himself by 12 seconds.
• Just to prove that he truly loves the map he rampaged through the Nightmare 100% (I say "rampaged" because I can't think of a word that means "spilled huge amounts of blood at a reasonably brisk pace") in a time of 12:49, new to the tables.
• Just to prove that he loves to share the love, he teamed up with Gregory R. Payne to lag their way through the 2-Player Easy 100% in 4:27.
• Then he ditched []Lardarse and went off on his own to fill the gap for the colony2 Easy 100% in 1:34. Looking good.
• But the lonelyness soon got to him and it was time go join Mathias Thore and Thomas Stubgaard in the Dismal Oubliette for some 3-Player Easy 100% action. Some nice route planning and fierce running made this 1:44 seven seconds faster than Justin Fleck, Nolan Pflug and Evan Wagner, the so called "American Tree-Ho's".
• And STILL he wasn't finished. There was a gap for the dam100 Easy 100% and, now that the map has been fixed so that you can get all kills (so go and download it again if you haven't done so already), he managed to get a respectable 2:13.

That left only the Nightmare 100% on dam100 without a demo. Unfortunately, NahkahiiR didn't quite have the balls to make it. Not that surpising because it is strictly a big-balls only demo. In fact, rumour has it that only Morfans sized stones are up to the job, so I gave it a try. Yes indeed, a lot of testicle work is needed to even get a 3:31 tablefiller.

I also improved my Nightmare 100% of aard100 by 23 seconds to 5:39, partly with the addition of the early RL grab, partly just being an all-round better demo.

"Barking" Basil de Vries went sm103_zwiffle crazy and "opened" a can of "whoop-ass" on m"w"h.

• He improved the Easy 100% by 27 seconds to get 1:53. Survival here is not an option... but somehow he does.
• Same for the Nightmare 100%, except slightly slower. 2:03 beating Michael by 36 seconds.
• His final demo was not Hudson-Harvesting. It was Lenhardt-laundering, beating Jonathan's Nightmare Run by 5 seconds to 0:14.

Our final demo for today is from Dmitry Dementjev who has beaten the old, Old, OLD, OLD Ilkka Kurkela Easy Run on discord. in 0:42. Ilkka's run was good, but Dmitry's is teo sweconds faster. Is Dmitry turning into the new Ilkka? Well, I have heard it said that apart from the fact that he lacks Ilkka's wit, intelligence, charm, skill, good looks, ability and (it has to be said) sexual magnetism, they are almost identical.

All demos download for this update is available from here.

Who's the man with the fastest boosts of them all? If you'd seen the last update, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was Rabbit-Running superstar Martin Selinus. However, a quick peek at this week's demos on aard100 will reveal, that it's actually Martin Selinus (all the difference is in the colour, y'see). He improved his very, very fast Easy Run by two seconds to a pant-wetting 0:25 and Tom's hoary old Nightmare Run by ten seconds to a bowel-loosening 0:26.

But old Marvin wasn't happy with that. He also improved his Easy Run through the The Realm of Black Magic by two seconds to bring us 3:43 of pure joy.

The other ID demo of the update is a surprisingly action packed 3-Player Easy Run of the Dismal Oubliette in 1:14 from Mathias Thore, Robert Maglic and Thomas Stubgaard, one second faster than Joe's SP time (it's still not very action packed -- just less dull than I expected :).

For the first time in a while, I have a few single player demos in this update. First I played the Easy 100% of sm103_zwiffle enough to luck out and get 2:20, fourteen seconds faster than before and then overcame my fear of the identically-monstered Nightmare 100% to record 2:39, a respectable 53 seconds faster than my demo in the last update. Finally, I was looking around frostbite and noticed a better way of doing the end than Jaakko and beat his demo by six seconds to get 1:30.

I set the demo over to NahkahiiR and he quickly sent in a 1:25 that was deemed invalid because he use a beta of QdQstats 1.8....

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"What a what?" I hear you cry? "QdQstats 1.8?" Yes, Nolan "the daddy" Pflug has been testing a new revision of the legendary and venerable QdQstats with dead body removal for those packet overflowing maps and a host of bugfixes (mainly removal of unkillable monsters). Not long after Jaakko sent in his demo with the beta, Radix declared himself happy and put the final version up for download on the download page.

In other site related news, Nolan found and fixed the bug that meant you couldn't get the final kill in dam100.bsp and uploaded a new version of the map. This means that if you want to do a 100% you'll have to download the map again (Jaakko got bitten again by this but he still has plenty of demos in the update). If you're still having trouble getting all the kills, try getting some more health...

Now, back to demos. As I was saying, Jaakko quickly noticed how stupid it was to kill the death knights at the end of the frostbite with grenades, picked up the perforator and exited in 1:24. Then he realised that the grenade counter is actually a good idea and improved to 1:21 taking his total improvement over me to nine seconds. Oh well, at least no-one else is playing sm103_zwiffle much...

In between his Easy Run attempts, the unspellably-nicked one took on the Nightmare 100% of frostbite and exited in a justifiably cautious 8:14.

If you're tired of hearing about Mr. Alakopsa, don't worry, you only have one more demo to read about: he improved his own run of Rubicondom by 46 whole seconds to get 4:13.

I also have a coop demo this week: Paul Davies and I completed the 2-Player Easy 100% of Rubicondom in 5:00 which isn't really very good, but the decimals are 5:00.0, which has to be worth something.

Good grief, haven't I finished this update yet? No! There's still Tom Nguyen's klz100b2 Nightmare Run in 0:22 to tell you about. Now I have. Good night.

All demos download for this update is available from here.

The new map demo splurge still continues, with twenty-one demos in this update. That's more demos than you could comfortably fit on a Canadian's creamy-white left buttock. Trust me. I checked. (Or was I dreaming....)

The majority of these demos were on aard100. Who would have thought that there could be so many routes? Because of this, I advise you to watch all these demos as they're not just "faster bunny" improvements, they're "Ha-ha! I bet you wish you'd tried that first" improvements.

• First out of the trap was Dutch insanity tube Basil de Vries, who did the Easy Run in 0:37, beating Mathias by 2 seconds.
• But hot on his heels came Martin Selinus who turned in a 0:36.
• Next came a 0:34 from David Hocking. It takes a brave man to attack a Marv record, he's sure to fight back.
• And fight back he did. With a 0:31, then a 0:29 and finally a 0:27. Marvin, we salute you! (Even though it's a 0:27.06)
• The Nightmare Run was slightly less frantic, but still a good battle. It started with a 0:39 by Tom Nguyen, beating himself by 7 seconds.
• Then carried on with a 0:38 by Basil de Vries.
• But Sshplur hit back with a recapture of 0:36.
• Those demos were good. But the best demo on the map this week was undoubtedly the Nightmare 100% by Richard "Hey, that's me!" Skidmore. Well, okay it's not that good, but at 6:02 it does beat Jaakko Alakopsa by 49 seconds.

heresp4 has been pretty slow moving up until now. And I'm not sure that an Easy 100% in 2:08 by Paul Davies really counts as "moving", but the demos nice. Anyone else want to try this piece of lovelyness? (The map, not Paul).

Michael Hudson uses my favourite tactic to tackle the 100% of sm103_zwiffle. Run through to the end collecting all the weaponry then run through again killing anything that's still alive. This gave him an Easy 100% time of 2:55 and a Nightmare 100% time of 3:32. Then, just before the deadline for this update, he sneaked in an Easy 100% improvement to 2:34. The monsters spend so much time fighting each other in this demo that he hardly needs to fire a shot!

Basil was not to be denied having at least one record in this update. He took on the Nightmare 100% of klz100b2, because everyone else was to scared to, and got 1:58. Fearsome stuff.

Oh, Wait. He also did the Nightmare Run in 0:27, beating Tom Nguyen by 3 seconds. So that's two records this update.

Fuck. And the colony2 Nightmare Run in 0:16. Three. I should have looked ahead a bit a couple of paragraphs ago.

Still on colony2, we have a brilliant Easy Run in 0:14, seven seconds faster than Jaakko, by Connor Fitzgerald. Connor's experience of jumping on top of old dogs certainly paid off here!

Arturo Garcia Lasca, made a couple of funked up demos. Also, just as an aside, he now owns more cars than braincells! (Five, in case you're interested.)

• First was an improvement to the sm59_lev2 Easy 100% in 0:24, beating Basil by 2 seconds.
• He wasn't the only one to think that the enforcers were a little slow to start blasting at Mandel in his dam100 Nightmare Run last update. He was the only one, however, to do a 0:16, one second faster.

And finally some Swede-on-Swede coop action from Martin "Pump" Selinus and Mathias "Dump" Thore. These two gentlemen took on the 2-Player Easy 100% of Termination Central and exited in the hugely impressive time of 0:39, two seconds faster than Martin and Sebastian.

That concludes this weeks demo-orgasm. If you haven't shot your bolt by now (or the female equivalent if you happen to be born with ovum) you probably never will.

Until next time...

All demos download for this update is available from here, with something like 39 demos, 36 of which actual records.

But first an important notice: Joequake contains a bug which makes coop demos look odd. Until Jozsef fixes this bug (or something else happens...) we must ban its use as server for coop demos. Sorry about that. Please use winquake or glquake instead until the problem has been fixed. Also, it's been noted that SM82 doesn't load properly in winquake and glquake, playing on nightmare skill. You will have to use Joequake for that. Thus, there is currently no way to make a valid nightmare coop demo on that map!

We added a whole bunch of maps last week, and here's what's been happening on them over the weekend.

sm103_zwiffle:

• ER
  • Michael Hudson got the first tablefiller 0:18.
  • Connor Fitzgerald shaved 5 seconds to get 0:13.
• NR
  • Jonathan Lenhardt did 0:19.
  • Connor sent in a 0:13 run claiming it was recorded on skill 3 but since it actually was recorded on skill 0, we won't put it in the tables :P

aard100

• ER
  • Jaakko Alakopsa did 0:47.
  • But I tried a quadded grenade verus a vore, succeded resonably, and got 0:39.
• EH - Jaakko did the full 100% in 5:36.
• NR - Tom Nguyen did this one in 0:46.
• NH - Jaakko, in 6:51.
• EH2 - Jaakko and Jonathan got together over a very fast internet connection and did a 4:08. Most of the time is saved thanks to teamplay rocket protection, rather than by the fact that they were two :)

colony2 has only seen one demo so far, but the one we have is impressive indeed. It's a 0:21 easy run by Jaakko, using an enforcer boost I did not see coming...

dam100:

• ER
  • Jaakko did 0:28, 0:24 and finally 0:21 using more and more refined techniques.
  • But Jonathan got 0:20.
  • In the end, Connor did the level in 0:15.
• NR
  • Jonathan did the first run in 0:22.
  • But I sent in a 0:17 short after that.

frostbite

• ER - Jaakko did 1:39 first, and then 1:36.
• EH - Jaakko also did this one, in 2:33.

heresp4 got one run, from Thomas Bergendorff, and it's the easy variant. 0:50 is his finishing time.

klz100b2

• ER - Arturo Garcia Lasca did this one in 0:22 first, and then 0:21.
• EH
  • Jonathan did the first try, and got 0:41.
  • But Arturo got 0:35, and then 0:31.
• NR - Tom tried this demo I thought would be impossible. But thanks to being smart, Tom finished the level in 0:30.

sm82

• ER
  • Gregory R. Payne did 5:26.
  • But Jaakko improved that to 4:59.
• EH - Gregory got 7:46, 7:02, 6:38 and finally 6:25.

That's it, for the extremely new levels. But we also have some demos on a level which is merely very new. It's sm59_lev2, the contest map. Basil de Vries went ahead and beat the easy 100% and nightmare 100% by one second each, getting 0:26 and 0:27 respectively. Sorry, Timo =)

The last demo for today is a 3-player easy 100% on a very, very old level, namely Termination Central. Martin Selinus, Thomas Stubgaard and I beat the old record by 3 seconds and got 0:32.

Yesterday's demo posting missed out on one demo that has been sitting in our inbox for the last, ohhhhhh, two years or so. It's the 2 Player Easy 100% of colony2 in 0:55 by Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck. What's that you say? Don't recognise that level? Well that's because we only added it to the archive a couple of hours ago.

In fact, we went a little mad and came up with a list of eight

• colony2, The Culling Station by Mark Turner. Please call your demos col2_xxx.
• heresp4, Beyond The Black Sun by Here. Please call your demos her4_xxx.
• frostbite, Frostbite by Peter 'hrimfaxi' Sörensen. Please call your demos frbt_xxx.
• aard100, The Secret Castle by Wouter 'Aardappel' van Oortmerssen. Please call your demos a100_xxx.
• dam100, Minimal Devastation by John 'DaMaul' McCann. Please call your demos d100_xxx.
• klz100b2, Shadows by Killazontherun. Please call your demos k100_xxx.
• sm103_zwiffle, The Fall Of Quake by Zwiffle. Please call your demos 103z_xxx.
• sm82, Rubicondom by Various Mappers. Please call your demos sm82_xxx.

All these maps has been re-VISed where necessary for transparent water support, and just because we love you, we have put all 8 new maps into one big .dz that you can grab from HERE.

If this isn't a reason to spend the whole weekend running I don't know what is!

The all demos download for this update is missing.

Three ID demos, three not. The first ID demo is from the exceedingly modest but incredibly talented and handsome Mathias Thore, with his 0:57 Nightmare Run of the Wind Tunnels beating the useless and ugly Connor Fitzgerald by one second.

Mandel is also involved in the next demo, which is him and Martin Selinus beating Evan Wagner and Cameron Engles by one second on the Easy 100% of Gloom Keep to record a 0:30.

The last ID demo is Thomas and Mads-Peter Stubgaard postively spanking Nolan Pflug and Evan Wagner's Easy 100% of The Pain Maze, their time of 1:23 being no less than 9 seconds faster.

All the non-ID demos are from the same man on the same map, because Tom Nguyen isn't a man to just beat a record. He bludgeons it to death, cuts up the pieces and finally dances on its grave. Observe: he beats Amrik's coagula3 Nightmare Run by 4 seconds to 0:39. Then he twists the knife with a 0:38. But that was a .3, so the coup de grace of a 0:37 follows after a few days more of cursing shamblers, framerates, packet loss and mappers in general.

You might want to keep paying attention to SDA over the next day or so...

Soooo....the LotW is over! Congratulations to Peter "the Devil Himself" Horvath, Arturo "Kën" García Lasca and Timo Nieminen for their respective wins!

Here are the results as given by our dear recordbot:

ER
# 1: Peter Horvath in 5.27461
# 2: Arturo Garcia Lasca in 5.43648
# 3: Timo Nieminen in 5.54287
# 4: Martin Selinus in 5.78607
# 5: Dmitry Dementjev in 5.98831
# 6: Paul Davies in 6.23662

EH
# 1: Timo Nieminen in 27.47589
# 2: Martin Selinus in 28.67163
# 3: Paul Davies in 30.53366

NR
# 1: Arturo Garcia Lasca in 5.33629
# 2: Timo Nieminen in 5.59952
# 3: Martin Selinus in 6.12305
# 4: Paul Davies in 6.20224
# 5: Michael Hudson in 8.62993

NH
# 1: Timo Nieminen in 28.77805
# 2: Paul Davies in 35.34885

Peter and Ken got very close to that magic 4 second run. Their stunning performances hint that 4 seconds could actually be possible if you just figure out how to get an additional boost. So, if you think you can do what Peter and Ken couldn't...well the level is now in the archives, go for it.
Timo had a strong 100% showing, and he was together with Paul the only player to participate in all categories, well done Timo, well done Paul.

Thanks everyone for participating, this kind of LotW will take place again. Unfortunately I'm moving from this flat and will be internet-less for some time (gamingwise anyway)...so we'll see what happens.

The entire demo pack can be found here. It contains the demos from the results above as well as an egg demo from Dmitry. However I have no idea what the hell the actual egg is. So watch the demo and let me know what's so funny about it cos I have no idea. Is it a russian thing?

Hey guys, I'm sorry for the delay in getting this LotW on the road. I'm in the process of moving flats, and on top of that the harddrive on my gaming rig blew up. That made me lose a number of maps and demos, not to mention the holiday pics (nude ones of my girlfriend...) and the last four months of mp3-downloads. Sigh.

Enough whining, and let me get on with the LotW. Today the W stands for "Who can get a 5 second run" - I lost my demo in the harddrive crash. BUT I figured it would be boring to leave it like this since getting a 5 sec run wouldn't take you skilled runners very long...so I've decided to spice things up a bit. This edition of the LotW is partly a competition as well. I got some help from mad hacker MWH (the only one on SDA with brains bigger than a chicken), and he implemented a nifty feature in Recordbot. Recordbot, our bot on irc that keeps track of speedruns, reports emails etc, will keep track of the latest times in all categories on this LotW map. The times will be read from the demos, and so will have the same accuracy - 6.37720 secs for example. It'll keep going for just about week (we'll end the show on 19.00 CET, Tuesday the 22nd of November).

This means it won't be enough to just get a five second run (or xx secs 100%), you'll have to own everyone down to the decimals, just as in a normal competition. But, unlike a normal competition, the idea is that you should send in your demo as soon as you have beaten the current record! That way Recordbot, and everyone else, will be updated on the current record and you'll know what time to beat! I'm hoping this will make for a lot of activity on IRC. The map itself is very simple, there's only one route...in order to win you just have to get better boosts than everyone else. How many boosts can you fit in? One? Two? Maybe even three? Maybe someone can get the runs closer to four seconds than five?? I think the W now stands for "Who can get the closest to four seconds?"

Download the map here. Name your demos 59l2_xxx. That's an 'l' as in lodis there inbetween the 9 and the 2...
Demos must be recorded using QdQstats - or they will be ignored.

To find out what the latest, and fastest, times are (and who sent them in) you simply log onto irc, quakenet, channel #qdq and ask recordbot:
Recordbot: lotw <category> (where the category can be er, eh, nr, nh).
For example, Recordbot: lotw er for the easy run category.

Have fun guys!

All demos download for this update is available here.

Peter Horvath. Read the name again. Say it out loud. What kind of update has you saying "Peter Horvath" out loud before you've even been presented with the first demo? Hopefully, you'd think, it's one that includes a demo from Peter. And you'd be right.

The Elder God Shrine nightmare run is an interesting one. To an untrained eye, Markus's 0:37 run might appear to be optimal or very close to optimal. A highly trained professional will easily come to the same conclusion. However, for Peter Horvath, 0:37 is mediocre at best. With a trick you won't believe you just saw, Peter finishes the map in 0:33, FOUR seconds faster than Markus. Antoher ID record for Peter, and another level done for the ongoing QdQwaV II project. If this is what Peter does when he's 'going to be taking a few months rest from Quake' then I don't ever want to see him get back in action ;-)

Having recently finished a chopped demo on end for the Quake done Chopped project, Tom Nguyen suddenly found himself having fallen in a strange kind of love with the quake chopper weapon known as axe. Luckily, SDA is a big archive by now, with loads of different maps offering different kinds of action. One of them is bbelief7, which just happens to offer buttloads of a2s (axe to shambler) and a2v (axe to vore) action. Beating Nolan Pflug by 24 seconds using some intelligent telefragging, Tom finishes the nightmare 100% in 2:51.

I, and many other people, just love long, long nightmare 100% demos as made by Richard Skidmore. So his new 6:54 demo on mexx9d comes as a pleasant treat. However, don't be deceived by the time; this demo is a run! Still, a multi minute figt against a single, stupid monster at the end makes this demo worth every single second you spend watching it :)

Mathias Thore, or I, found the emptiness in my SDA inbox a little too tragic, and decided to find a few quickie ER's to beat. So I did coagula3 in 0:38 and dxm in 0:11, 2 and 1 seconds faster than Amrik respectively. Nice!

Thomas Bergendorff is currently recovering from a hard drive failure. Unable to keep from playing Quake, Thomas suddenly found himself sitting in front of another, much older computer, playing the game we all know and love. After a while he had improved the disturb easy 100% by 3 seconds, to the new, fresh 1:07. A double ogre grenade jump towards the end is just one of quite a few 'wow' moments.

In fact, this update has been all about 'wow'! To take you people back down to earth again, the last demo for today is a pingy coop on dmc1m2. Mathias Thore (Sweden), Robert Maglic (Sweden), and Michael Hudson (Britain) teamed up one Tuesday night and did the 3-player easy run in 0:15, two seconds faster than the single player demo.

Is all! Go run! Yeah bananas.

The Dismal Gibliette contest is over and the results are in. Congratulations to everyone who entered, but especially Timo and Martin (seeing as they won, and it is, you know, a contest and you're allowed to be elitist for them).

Stay tuned for the next exciting SDA event!

All demos download for this update is available here.

If you've recently beaten the record for the Easy 100% of the Dimension of the Doomed and of The Slipgate Complex, what is the obvious "next thing" to do? The Easy 100% of Castle of the Damned, maybe? The current record is a "Jozsef 2002" demo and very good... but Arturo Garcia Lasca's 0:48 is even better! One second better, in fact. It's clear that Ken is one Street Fighter character that knows how to use a shotgun. The next record in the ideal sequence is of course the Easy 100% of The Necropolis but we'll probably forgive him if he skips that one :)

The other impressive ID demo in this update is Azure Agony 2-Player Easy Run in 0:41 from Robert Maglic and Mathias Thore beating the old record from Simon Nordberg and Daniel Magnusson by just one second. I'm sure I heard things about a 0:40 but it hasn't materialized yet.

Bringing up the rear of this update is a rather badly planned 3-Player Easy 100% tablefiller on hellbrid in 2:22 from Mandel, Midas and me. We suspect that this can be improved (a) with better routes, (b) with better running, or (c) both.

I really hope the reason there has only been three demos in the last week is that you've all been working super hard on the contest. Or there will be trouble.

We've been promising you a contest for... ohhhhhh... ages. But where is it?

Guess what? It's HERE.

All demos download for this update is available here.

It's not like we've received a whole lot of demos this last week or anything. It's just that one of'em is particularly fine. The Slipgate Complex easy 100% stood unreachable for five and a half years unil suddenly one day this spring Timo Nieminen took it down a second. But much to everybody's surprise, Timo's record didn't stand very long, not even half a year, because Arturo García Lasca took it down another second this wednesday. The new record is 0:52, and the demo looks flawless to me.

Jonny Andersson did a very appreciated but short comeback, and sent us an easy 100% on evildead. Jonny got 1:12 which is 7 seconds faster than Fabian's old record.

I did two demos on obiwan3, namely the easy run in 0:43 which is a 2-second improvement over myself, and the easy 100% in 1:57, 12 seconds faster than Pif. I was aiming for TO on the level but the NH owned me.

Did I mention a contest? Mandel who?

All demos download for this update is available here.

Now, usually updates are written by a member of SDA. Ignoring this somewhat necessary requirement, here's an update, with comments too! Lazy buggers. Luckily for me, there were not too many demos, 9 in total, although one is a tad long...

As you all know, the ant Easy Run had been the target of a flurry of demos in September, the last 5 in fact by none other than Tom Nguyen. Steadily he had been chipping off the seconds, and has now perhaps closed the book with a very nice 1:46, with neat little tricks and monster co-operation taking off a further 4 seconds.

You'll also have noticed Laurent Mertens's obsession with Prodigy Special Edition; this pattern continues, with a new Easy and Nightmare marathon of the Run variety. Not respectively, his new times are 3:36 and 3:19. To provide a rather useless measure of progress, in total that's 44 seconds improvement, despite a little (understandable) nervousness late on, and exiting the first level on Nightmare with only 1 health. Also, I don't know about you, but... I would have at least once liked to see the skill change done properly. :)

Anyway, every other demo in this update is on the original bunch of levels made by those idiots at iD. To kick it off, here's a fantastic Nightmare Run on e4m2, by the man who proves the bunny is well and truly out of the bag. Scripting aside, none other than Robert Maglic takes the time down to 0:29, which you'd know if you were watching the QdQwav2 page like a hawk. I know I am.

In a fairly random position, here's the only coop demo of the update. What's wrong with you people? Stubby and Mandel improved some demo by an aging webmaster and an american laggot, ending up with an e4m3 NH2 in 3:43. This looks pretty darn optimal to me.

Not content at only one demo, Thomas Stubgaard decided to knock the obligatory one second from an older demo of his on e2m5, the Nightmare 100% of course. The new record is 1:59, destroying the significant-only-in-sixties 2 minute barrier.

Next come some rather nice marathons from Ken, who wasn't very happy with his Dimension of the Doomed Easy 100% from last week, and decided to improve it to a shiny 7:25. Again deciding it sucked, he knocked off yet another 4 seconds, producing this positively gleaming 7:21. Bravo, what say.

The last demo is rather special; for one, most records don't go near a 2 hour improvement in their lifespan. This one does, as the Fleck wrenches the very impressive id1 NH title back from Marlo Galinski's grasp, a carnage-filled 1:09:33. That's another 3:29 saved. I might just watch this again in a few minutes; it's that good.

The Other Demos section has received its fair share of stuff recently too. Check that out when it gets updated, probably in the year 2010.

What's that you say? Other demos? Besides the ones we already host at SDA? Yep, we've opened up a new section for demos that fit into other categories, such as Cheated, Naked, Careful, Bunny and Tricks/Eggs. You can find a more detailed explanation for each category here (scroll down to the bottom), but to put it in short, we've moved the Bunny Comparison page and the page previously known as Windlash (it hosted demos for the Cheated and Naked categories) to this new page, along with a brand new category called Careful. The Tricks/Eggs section is mostly just for the fun of it, we'll add more demos as we go along. We've decided only to host runs on the original id maps, except for a few custom maps which had already been added to the Windlash page. We're open to suggestions though, so if you have a brilliant idea for a map we should add, or you've made an outstanding demo on a non-id map for any of these new categories, we'll consider adding it, but ask us first before you send us your demos, m'kay!

• You can browse through the different pages by clicking "other demos" in the main menu to the left.
• Demos should be sent to our normal email address, bug reports and questions should go the same way.

Happy running!

All demos download for this update is available here.

Here we go with a nice, round half dozen demos. Giving you, the beloved viewer, nearly an hour and a half of top quality viewing! Why so much sheer pleasure from so few demos? Well...

When Optic recently took Marlo's record for the Nightmare 100% through The Whole Damned Game it was like a cattle-prod in the gonads for Marlo Galinski. He immediately set about about working on the recapture and, after incidentally improving the Elder World marathon along the way (see last week's update), he finally settled on a 73:02, just one second shy of five minutes faster. Watch and learn.

Justin Fleck took his Kurkela bashing stick to the shadow 100%s. First the Easy 100% in 2:50 beating Ilkka by 6 seconds, then the Nightmare 100% in 4:54 beating Ilkka by... wait for it... 70 seconds! That's not just Flecked, that's positively Pflugged!

Optic loses a record, Optic gains two records, now Optic loses another record. Last week saw a highly entertaining battle between the aforementioned Fleckmeister and Tom Nguyen fot the ant Nightmare Run. The record went backwards and forwards between them several times and when we last left them Justin had the prize. Much frustration then ensued for Sshplur until suddenly, out of the blue, all the monsters cooperated and he got a suprise 2:17, five seconds faster.

Laurent Mertens upped the aggression level in his pse Nightmare Run Marathon and it seems to have paid off. He finished in 4:08, a full thirty seconds faster than his last demo.

Only one coop this time, but the weekend is coming so we'll probably see some more hot marine-on-marine action in just a few days. To tide you over here's Martin Selinus and Mathias Thore doing the 2-Player Easy 100% of The Door To Chthon in 0:26, one second fasterthan Martin and Sebastian.

And finally, Radix has made one of his semi-regular updates to the All Demos Download. Not the All Demos Download you see at the top of demo updates, but the All Demos Download that contains ALL the regular demos that we've ever had, EVER! You can get it from here and then spend the next 250 hours or so just watching. (Although you'll probably need to take a toilet break at some point...)

That's all from me for today. Stay beefy.

All demos download for this update is available here.

Hey there runners and lurkers. I'm back, big time, with 22 demos on various maps! Don't you ever let me leave you like that again m'kay? It's certainly been a while since I wrote an update, so let's see if I remember how to do it... Hmm...

Before we get started with the demos I just have to tell you all to have a look at the QdQwavp2 project page because Peter Horvath sent in a demo today. It's on e2m4, and features one of the biggest why didn't I think of that-moments ever. Just watch in awe as Peter goes to fetch the rocket launcher 'the wrong way'... Go to the project page and check it out.

hellbrid.

• Justin Fleck decided to show Jaakko Alakopsa how a real man^® does the easy run in 0:50, 11 seconds faster than Jaakko.
• Jaakko Alakopsa replied with doing the nightmare run in 1:19, 8 seconds faster than Damian Kulot.
• But Justin did it even faster, in only 0:59.
• The one who drew the longest straw this time was Dmitry Dementjev. Following all the SDA rules and using a fair number of very difficult tricks, his 0:38 easy run turned out to be 12 seconds faster than Justin's.
• Saddened by the loss of a precious SDA record, Justin teamed up with his coop mate Evan Wagner and did the 2-player easy run in 0:34,
• and the 2-player nightmare run in 0:38.

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• The nightmare run on this level has seen quite a fight this week, between a relatively new newbie and a terribly old oldtimer. Tom Nguyen started the fight by beating Justin's table filler by 32 seconds with this 2:33.
• Justin didn't want to know anything about it, and instantly made this 2:30 demo, 3 seconds faster than Tom!
• Tom replied with a 5 second improvement, 2:25...
• ...which Justin improved by another 3 seconds to 2:22.
• That's the end of that. For this week at least.
• Justin also improved his tablefiller nightmare 100% by 26 seconds to 5:45.

Justin Fleck

• ...also had time to fill some of the nastier holes the SDA tables have ever seen. First he took on the menk easy 100% and got a more than decent 9:09.
• The nightmare run looks like an absolute bitch, but Justin did it in style and 1:37. Dare I say optimal? No I don't. But almost :)
• Someone requested an ac demo, and got this 6:16 easy 100%.
• The 100%s on czg100b reached new hights as Justin beat Richard's easy version by 8 seconds to 1:25,
• and Richard's nightmare version by 5 seconds to 1:26. Swell!

Dmitry Dementjev applied a very powerful set of bunnies, tricks, and SDA rules on bnt and managed to beat Kay's easy run first by 1 second to 0:43 and then by an incredible other second to 0:42. Speedy!

I've been involved in a number of coop demos this weekend.

• First together with Michael Hudson and Martin Selinus. We did a 3-player easy 100% on sm100_pulsar in 0:33. You have to love the way this demo ends (Chthon kills the last vore for you bums who are too lazy to watch the demo)!
• Again with Martin but this time also with Robert Maglic. Shub-Niggurath's Pit got a 0:13 3-player easy run. There's some decent pings here, but we could do with even lower.
• When Martin had to go to bed, me and Robert took in Thomas Stubgaard and did a 3-player easy 100% on The Door To Chthon in 0:22, beating an old demo by Ilkka Kurkela, Juho Larvi and Juho-Jussi Renvall by 3 seconds.
• And finally, today me, Martin, Robert and Thomas did a splendid 4-player easy 100% on Azure Agony. It's blazingly fast. 0:57.

Now, go stretch your contest nerves, because we will soon have a surprise for you all. I almost promise!